I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURSTThe best Paris I know now is in my head.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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On the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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